Financial Policy Challenge - Long-Term Forecasting and Planning

This template provides the basics of a long-term planning and forecasting policy.

Faced with downward pressures on tax revenues, increasing expenditures, shifting demographics, as well as host of other complex challenges, local governments need a new approach to planning. Readers of Financing the Future will learn how to achieve and maintain long-term financial sustainability.

GFOA's financial policy challenge is a broad effort to encourage members to adopt and share financial policies that are essential to a strong financial foundation.